Cherdyn Local History Museum named after A.S. Pushkin

About museum

The Cherdyn Local History Museum named after A. S. Pushkin — one of the oldest museums of Prikamye and the Urals — was founded in 1899 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the great Russian poet. In the same year the Scientific Society of Lovers of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Cherdyn Region with a museum of antiquities was established. The Society and the museum of antiquities owe their creation to the chairman of the Cherdyn district zemstvo board Dmitry Aristarkhovich Udintsev — a man devoted to archaeological interests who, despite his brief stay in Cherdyn, managed to put the idea of a museum into practical existence. Later the Society was dissolved and its rich museum collections were transferred to the public education museum. In 1922 the museum was given the name "Cherdyn Local History Museum named after A. S. Pushkin", which it proudly bears to this day.
For more than a hundred years the Cherdyn Local History Museum has remained faithful to its main mission — the preservation and promotion of the cultural heritage of its native region. The main museum wealth is its collections, which number 145,674 storage units. The museum's collections can be consulted in the State Catalog of the Russian Federation.
In 2022 the Cherdyn Local History Museum named after A. S. Pushkin was transferred to regional ownership and received the status of a State Regional Budgetary Cultural Institution, the founder of which is the Ministry of Culture of Perm Krai.
The museum complex includes five buildings. All of them are architectural monuments of regional significance — objects of cultural heritage of the Russian Federation. The building of the local history museum (ChUZU, 1850s) is currently under restoration until 2024. The exhibition hall (Women's Gymnasium, 1888), the Museum of the History of Faith (Assumption Church, 1757–1785), the museum space at 58 Yurganovskaya St. (Men's Parish School, 1888), the M. N. Romanov Memory Center (Almshouse, 1913–1915), together with the Romanov Garden and the pit in which boyar M. N. Romanov was imprisoned in the urban-type settlement of Nyrob.